Political Prisoners Foundation Law No. 4 of 2006, as amended, does not use that administrative title as the heading of an article. What the text clearly provides in Article 17 is a one-time financial grant for a covered political detainee whose detention lasted less than one month, alongside monthly salaries for longer periods. The popular phrase is therefore read with the coverage decision and with Article 17. A published list is not automatically the same thing as the statutory grant.
The monthly salary is explained in The political prisoner's salary.
Paragraph Sixth of Article 17 pays a covered political detainee whose detention lasted less than one month a financial grant, once only. A person whose detention reached one month or more moves into the monthly-salary brackets according to length, or into the rights of a political prisoner if the period reached one year or more, or if a female detainee's detention reached thirty days or more. A one-time grant does not become a periodic salary unless a new decision changes the legal description.
The grant is part of compensation for restriction of liberty and lost earnings, and it stands beside other privileges such as land or study; each follows its own statutory basis. The amount is the cash figure fixed in the text.
“Compensatory-grant batches” and “names on the compensatory grant” in Baghdad, Basra or Dhi Qar are sometimes mentioned. Those phrases point to an administrative cycle in which the Foundation announces payment groups, not to a separate statutory article headed “the batch”. Appearance on a list, or absence from it, does not replace a coverage decision of the Special Committee, nor the payment voucher. A dispute about being listed, or about delay of a batch, is taken back to the decision and the documents, not to public notices alone.
The distinction matters: the right arises from coverage under the law; payment may be organised in batches. Delay of a batch does not, by itself, extinguish the right, and being named in an announcement does not cure a wrong coverage decision.
Before any grant is paid, the status of political detainee and the length of detention must be established before the Special Committee, as explained in Who is covered. If the application is refused, the path is grievance and appeal, not a separate “grant” request detached from coverage.
A person entitled to a monthly salary under the relevant bracket is not treated as a person entitled only to a one-time grant. Confusing the two is a common source of delay in understanding the file.
The Article 17 grant is not to be confused with the building grant or the cash equivalent linked to a plot of land under Article 18, nor with a monthly salary for a longer-period bracket, nor with a social welfare grant from another route. Each of these entitlements has its own legal basis. A person who combines rights under this law with rights under the Martyrs Foundation Law or Law No. 20 of 2009 should see Combining entitlements, because the bar on double entitlement for the same harm remains where the text provides it.
Notification of the coverage decision or the payment decision starts the running of any grievance or enquiry period. The effect of notification is explained in Political Prisoners Foundation notifications.
No. The salary is monthly, for the longer-period brackets. The grant in Article 17 is paid once, to a detainee whose detention lasted less than one month. Administrative announcements under the name “grant” are read with that distinction.
Because payment may be announced in groups. The right is established by the coverage decision, and a published list is an administrative arrangement for a payment group.
Basra, Baghdad and Dhi Qar are sometimes mentioned in connection with batches. Entitlement is one and the same under the law. The place and schedule of payment are administrative arrangements announced by the Foundation through its official channels.
The coverage decision, the evidence of the period, and the payment document are reviewed, and the Foundation is asked to explain the delay. Absence from a published list does not, by itself, mean the right has lapsed.
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